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Subject:RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question From:Roger Bell <RBell -at- OptioSoftware -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:01:16 -0500
When I was marketing myself for a new position a year ago, I was often asked
during phone interviews by headhunters to list how many months of experience
I had on different software tools, for example, Word, Frame, Acrobat, and
RoboHelp. They also often asked the last time I used each tool or the
version number.
If I am in the market in the future, I might prepare a software skills
matrix that is available by request or include it at the end of my resume.
Roger Bell
Technical Writer
Optio Software, Inc. http://www.optiosoftware.com
"Decaf espresso...what's the point?"
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Subject: Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
At the end of my resume, I list all the software that I have a
familiarity and I list them in order of strength.
I tell them that this is the way I've done it.
The beginning of the list is SW that was my primary SW at a contract.
By the time you get to the end of the list, I used it enough to open
a file in the application, make a change, and save a new version.
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